From the Artist: I am a fan of Expressionistic style of color use and find painting knives very useful because of its more covering capabilities. In this painting, the wood is created by simple mix of alizarin, cadmium red and yellow applying together with knife and little blending. The geometric shapes of the stones and abstract trees are also achievable easily with knife.
From the Painting Guide: I think painting knives work brilliantly for an Expressionist style because they enable you to make such strong marks in the paint. There's a fabulous sense of textured park on the tree trunks, of rough edges to the stones.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Composition: Look at how the stones in the foreground that have fallen out of the wall lead your eye up the painting, towards the strong line of the wall itself. Notice how color also pulls your eye from place to place in the composition, the dark shadowy browns as well as the bits of blue among the red.
The right-hand part of the painting has a lovely sense of distance in it, but the woodland behind the wall, where the scene is redder, seems flatter. It may be you wanted to create a sense of not being able to see far into the wood, but if this were the case then I think I'd have a darker tone.
From the Painting Guide: I think painting knives work brilliantly for an Expressionist style because they enable you to make such strong marks in the paint. There's a fabulous sense of textured park on the tree trunks, of rough edges to the stones.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Composition: Look at how the stones in the foreground that have fallen out of the wall lead your eye up the painting, towards the strong line of the wall itself. Notice how color also pulls your eye from place to place in the composition, the dark shadowy browns as well as the bits of blue among the red.
The right-hand part of the painting has a lovely sense of distance in it, but the woodland behind the wall, where the scene is redder, seems flatter. It may be you wanted to create a sense of not being able to see far into the wood, but if this were the case then I think I'd have a darker tone.